| My D is a junior and pretty actively shopping schools. WCC is currently in the lead in her heart and mind, partly because she went to summer programs there for the last 4 years, but also from visits there and singing under Joe Miller in her District Honors Chorus last year. Here in the Philly area, nearly everyone involved in vocal music has, if not a degree, some professional training from there, so it's hard to avoid that school's influence in these parts.
Their training, especially in the choral music field is first rate (even if their facilities are not) and I've yet to see any school offering the performance opportunities they can.
Rider seems to be leveraging the Westminster name by bundling WCC and their dance, theater, and graphic arts programs under the name Westminster College of the Arts. WCC remains intact within that college so I'm not too sure what the net effect of this arrangement will actually have on it. |